Nepal´s Permanent Representative to the UN Gyan Chandra Acharya registered the eight-page rebuttal at Security Council on Wednesday, shortly after the body voted to wind up the UNMIN´s mandate after four months. [break]
In its objection, the government has not only accused UNMIN of bias but has also accused the mission of failing to accurately report ground reality.
“While the main responsibility for this setback lies with the Nepali actors, there have also been some complaints that UNMIN has not been able to play as effective and impartial a role as expected,” said the objection sent in the form of the government´s comments to the September 7 briefing of UNMIN Chief Karin Landgren to the Security Council.
This is the first time that the government has objected to the UNMIN chief´s briefing in writing. Saying that all complaints against UNMIN may not be justified, the government has urged the Council not to take them as Nepal´s criticism or lack of commitment to the UN.
The government further noted that Landgren´s briefing has offended many senior leaders of the Nepali Congress and the CPN (UML) leaders, saying that some leaders have even questioned the utility of “interacting with UNMIN if their views continue to be systematically disregarded or derided”.
The government has also complained to the Security Council about UNMIN´s “ineffective” monitoring of the Maoist combatants, saying such a monitoring has led to uncertainty about how many combatants are actually in the cantonments.
The government also came down heavily against Landgren´s description of the general strike called by the Maoist in May on a positive note.
“To diplomats in faraway New York this might give the impression that this general strike was some popular, peaceful democratic exercise which was brought to a happy ending by a mature responsible leadership,” the government said, adding that a peaceful rally had forced the Maoist to call off the indefinite strike.
In yet another point of objection, the government said Landgren was wrong in saying that “11th hour threat of revolt” within CPN-UML played a decisive role in extending the of the term of the Constituent Assembly.
In yet another allegation, the government has accused Landgren of trying to “drive a wedge” within and between Nepali Congress and the CPN-UML while saying that “the caretaker Government, sections of the Nepali Congress and the CPN (UML), and the Nepal Army” argue against monitoring of the national army by UNMIN.
“This is completely wrong. The NC and UML parties have both taken official decision and made public statements in support of removing the NA from UNMIN´s monitoring,” the government said.
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